Gozney Tread Pizza Oven Review: Gorgeous and Compact

Billed arsenic the “world’s astir portable pizza oven,” the Gozney Tread is an adventure-ready, ruggedized gas-powered beauty. It is the smallest of the hugely awesome Gozney range, and the 2nd astir affordable down the archetypal Roccbox. It joins an ever-evolving enactment of location pizza ovens that person transformed our quality to navigator due pizza—we're talking everything from Neapolitan, Chicago-style, New York and Sicilian—from the comfortableness of the backyard.

With the Tread, Gozney wants america to instrumentality our sourdough calzone connected tour. Measuring 16.5" x 19.1" x 12.6", it is undeniably compact for a afloat featured pizza oven, and the 2 ample handles marque it easier (and cleaner) to determination than most. The gas-only plan tin deed 932 degrees Fahrenheit (500 degrees Celsius) and has abstraction for a 12-inch pie.

Can it vie with the champion pizza ovens available, and astatine 29.7 pounds, is it truly portable capable to instrumentality with you? I spent a fewer weeks some carb- and trunk-loading to find out.

Portable? Really?

For each the gorgeous selling images of the Tread successful the desert, connected mountains and successful distant locations, it's worthy noting that my reappraisal portion arrived connected a full-sized woody pallet. Admittedly Gozney did proviso maine with each conceivable extra, but it was inactive rather an eye-opening magnitude of cogwheel for thing billed arsenic not conscionable portable, but the "world’s astir portable pizza oven.”

29.7 pounds is astir the aforesaid value arsenic an SUV tyre oregon a emblematic three-year-old. While not back-breakingly heavy, cipher wants to walk each that agelong carrying thing truthful awkward.

The pizza oven is an impressively compact unit, and perfect if you're a tailgater whose thought of wilderness is the parking lot, but erstwhile you origin successful the state canister (they urge a 5-11-kilogram tank), tripod stand, pizza peel, and each the different accoutrements needed to marque pizza distant from home, the real-world logistics commencement to mount.

Looking astatine the competition, the Ooni Koda 12 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is rather a spot lighter than the Tread astatine 20.4 pounds, but besides larger, astatine 24.4 x 15.5 x 11.7 inches. That airy value is simply a information erstwhile you recognize that reviews exertion Adrienne So has strapped pizza ovens arsenic large arsenic the Ooni Karu 16 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) to paddleboards to instrumentality them retired to islands successful the mediate lakes.

Ooni’s transportation covers are besides overmuch cheaper than the Tread’s Venture Bag ($99) and the ovens travel with legs, truthful you don’t request to instrumentality a stand. If you're heading anyplace with uneven ground, however, the Gozney basal is overmuch much versatile (more connected that later).